The demographic changes in Europe will contribute to increased numbers of people with reduced mobility, among them older and disabled people. For this population, accessibility of transport (public as well as private cars) is a necessity for autonomy, social inclusion and sustainable development.
The EUs perspective for its disabled citizens is in accordance with the new approach to disability: moving away from seeing people with disabilities as the passive recipients of compensation, the new approach recognises their legitimate demand for equal rights and for full participation in society.
In order to meet its objectives of social participation of people with disabilities, the EU is facing a great challenge to ensure the mobility of all citizens, including those with disabilities or reduced mobility.

Euro Access has aimed to contribute to this challenge by establishing the main achievements in public policies and public transport. To achieve this goal the partners of the project have studied the legal frameworks implemented in the different countries, they have also taken into account the expectations of the users and focused on some of the best practices in Europe.

This web site is for us the way to present the work we have carried out and the results we have achieved.  We hope that you will find interest in it and that it will contribute to making public transport more accessible, as we believe this is an ambitious and important issue for the whole European Society and its foreseen trends and evolution.

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The objective of the project is to contribute to the development of EU policy on the accessibility of the transport systems in the 27 member states, and 2 EFTA countries, in order to promote social integration and active participation in society of people with disabilities.

Mains goals of the Euro Access project

The mains goals of project are:

1. To establish an inventory as comprehensive as possible of current legal frameworks and regulations on public transport in the EU.
2. To highlight best practice in the EU on national policies, technical innovation, services provided and their potential correlations with the employment of people with disabilities.
3. To make recommendations for a common legal framework in the EU on the accessibility of transport systems.